Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble


Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble was a 90-minute Canadian benefit concert airing on April 26, during the COVID-19 pandemic and a week after the 2020 Nova Scotia attacks. The show pulled in over 11,500,000 viewers and was simulcast by every major Canadian television broadcast company, including Bell Media, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Rogers Media, Corus Entertainment, V, as well as numerous other television, radio, and Internet-based broadcast platforms making it both the largest multi-platform broadcast and highest viewed non-sporting broadcast in Canadian television history. Numerous singers, actors, athletes, charities, and those impacted by coronavirus were featured including remarks by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Over in donations during the event were raised for Food Banks Canada.

Production

Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble is primarily made up of homemade video from various celebrities' households singing or giving words of encouragement. The show was created in collaboration to unite viewers during the COVID-19 pandemic and after the 2020 Nova Scotia attacks.

Broadcasters

The benefit concert aired on 120 different radio, television, and online platforms.
On television, the concert was broadcast on English-language stations CTV, CBC Television, Citytv, and Global. It was also broadcast on French-language station V. The special was also simulcast on networks owned by Bell Media, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Rogers Media, Corus Entertainment, Asian Television Network, Blue Ant Media, and Stingray Group, as well as networks such as APTN, Family Channel, Hollywood Suite, NTV, OutTV, and Super Channel Fuse.
On radio, the concert was simulcast on CBC Music, CBC Radio One, EZ Rock, Sirius XM channel 169, and Virgin Radio, as well as select stations owned by Arctic Radio, Bell Media Radio, Blackburn Radio, First Peoples Radio, Harvard Broadcasting, Jim Pattison Group, Rawlco Communications, Stingray Radio, and Vista Radio.
The concert was also streamed on numerous websites, streaming services, and on-demand services, including CBC Gem, CBC Listen, Crave, Ici TOU.TV, Stingray Qello, Super Channel On Demand, and the websites and apps of the CBC, CTV, Citytv, Entertainment Tonight Canada, Global, Global News, and iHeartRadio Canada.

Featuring

Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble began with Sam Roberts cover of "We're All In This Together" with his family and subsequently featured numerous singers, actors, athletes, charities, victims of the COVID-19 pandemic, politicians, and Canadian personalities. It concluded with a twenty-five artist collaboration of "Lean on Me", and closing remarks by Justin Trudeau and Drake.

Musical performances

Lean on Me

Near the end of the broadcast, twenty-five artists collaborated on a bilingual rendition of "Lean on Me" as a tribute to Bill Withers. The rendition is a product of an initiative by Tyler Shaw and Fefe Dobson called ArtistsCAN, and was released separately to raise funds for the Canadian Red Cross.

Impacts

Stronger Together, Tous Ensemble drew in over 11,500,000 viewers and raised over for Food Banks Canada. The show became the most watched non-sporting event in Canadian television history.